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Dear Friends, |
June 27, 2000 |
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Dear Friends,
Last March, we passed a budget that set aside $40 billion over the next 5 years to add a prescription drug benefit for seniors to Medicare. This week we will vote on a bill to begin to make that benefit a reality.
When Medicare was created thirty-odd years ago, drugs were a very small part of the cost of medical care. But in the last decades research has brought us wonderful new drugs that let us live longer and healthier lives. Some of those drugs are really expensive.
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